Sunday, August 1, 2010

Night Photography Take 2

I still have a few more things to work out, such as more manually adjusting the shutter speed.

I got a wireless shutter release to fix the main problems from last time, but I forgot to bring it out with us, so we had to make do with the self timmer.

The light turned out fairly eerie in the long exposure pictures. These pictures were taken at about 9 or 10 pm, it was pitch black out, but the photos looked like it was dusk. I even tried using the hood on the lens but that didnt do anything.


The lincoln memorial photographs well from upclose though when the shutter speed could be fairly fast.


Then I brought out my new toy, the fish eye lens. I bought a pretty cheap lens extension for this, so the photo quality isnt all that great, but still kinda neat.




Then when we were just packing up and about ready to go home, peter spotted this creepy guy: